Cheaper to rebuild a quarter of dangerous flats than to make them safe
Cladding works can eradicate 80pc of the value of home as leaseholders battle developers to take on the burden
5 June 2021 • 5:00am
Rise in material costs and looming deadline to start work to qualify for Government support has made things difficult for leaseholders
Sharply rising material costs, a shortage of labour and the fast-approaching deadline for works to begin in order to receive government money have created an acute bottleneck, pushing remediation costs even higher.
Robert Frazer, 34, lives in Transport House in Salford, which requires an estimated £3m of remedial work. This is equivalent to a charge of £97,000 per flat.
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Oregon Woman Who Died Homeless Had Nearly $900K Held for Her by State: Money Was Just Sitting There
On 6/5/21 at 1:55 PM EDT
A woman living on the streets of Astoria, Oregon, had passed away in January 2020 without knowing that the state had over $800,000 of her unclaimed money waiting for her, KGW reported.
Cathy Boone, 49, was a regular at the Astoria Warming Shelter. She had friends who told KGW that, like all who live homeless in harsh environments, Boone struggled to survive, but she was generally a happy person.
Boone moved from Portland to Astoria, a town on the Oregon coast, to be with her mother before the latter passed away in 2016. According to court records, an attorney and personal representative assigned to her mother s estate tried to find Boone but failed to reach her.